Plus email addressing, also known as sub-addressing, allows you to create variations of a normal email address that will still be delivered to your institutional email account. Students, faculty, and staff can use plus email addressing.

 

Why Use Plus Email Addressing? 

The full address, including the extra information, can act as a label and can be useful for managing email and site registrations as well as tracking emails to search later. Here are some examples:

1. Use plus email addressing when you sign up for different newsletters or community lists to easily filter or create rules for them, which can help you organize, search, and file the messages you receive from those senders.
   
   
2. Plus email addressing is useful for creating disposable addresses that can prevent spam from coming to your mailbox. If you need to enter your email address in a form, you can enter a variant address in that form. After you get the required email, you can set up a block to never receive an email at that address again.
   
   
3. Specify an action for messages sent to a particular plus address using an inbox rule, such as moving the messages to a specific folder. Use plus email addressing to email students, faculty or staff at their @ucf.edu email address to easily filter, search, or create Outlook rules for tracking and sorting. 

Using Plus Email Addressing

Creating a plus address is easy. Simply add + after your username, but before the @ symbol. For example, if your email address is John@ucf.edu, you can instantly create an address like John+knight@ucf.edu or John+goknights@ucf.edu

Addresses created with the plus sign will be automatically routed to your regular email account.

Note: Plus addresses can only be used to receive email, you cannot send email with a plus address (your regular email address is always used for sending). You can use a plus address as a "reply to" address.

Setting Up Inbox Rules

To automatically identify and filter messages that are sent to plus addresses, use Inbox rules to act on those messages. Using the condition Recipient address includes, you can specify an action for messages sent to a particular plus address. For example, you can move messages in your inbox to a folder.

Create a rule on a message

1. Right-click an existing message and select Rules > Create Rule.
2. Select a condition, and what to do with the message based on the condition.
3. For example, to move messages with a certain title to a specific folder, select the Recipient address includes condition, select Move the item to folder, select or create a New folder, and then select OK.
4. When you're done creating the rule, select OK.
5. To use the rule right away, select the Run this new rule now on messages already in the current folder checkbox, and then select OK.
6. The message now appears in that folder.

 

How do I test?

If you’d like to try testing plus addressing, simply send an email to your UCF email address, but in the form First.LastName+test@ucf.edu (or NID+test@ucf.edu, for students)